The University Hospital Basel (USB) is planning another new building. Seven general planning teams were selected for the competition for Perimeter B including LUDES with its Basel partner Nissen Wentzlaff. The design by LUDES / Nissen Wentzlaff made it into the second round with 4 other remaining projects.

Excerpt from the jury report: “The authors propose a stepped and slightly bent building figure along Schanzenstrasse, which appears as a building alongside the street with a tower-like structure. Overall, the new building with the existing buildings aims to create a balanced ensemble of buildings around the hospital garden and, with the tower, a sensible grouping of towers. … The planning draft shows a good planning understanding of clinical relationships, macro-efficiency considerations are recognized and placed accordingly in the building.

The project shows appropriate solutions that are worth discussing on several levels. Above all, the room grouping of the uses according to the operational requirements and their correspondence with the selected building shape is convincing. Other aspects such as the contextual integration of the building, the arrangement of the various entrances, the permeable entrance hall and the operational organization are basically well resolved. “